note syphilis I didn't know that Actually, I was just *guessing* that "restoring" ActivePerl-5.14 from a profile file that listed the 5.10 values for ACTIVEPERL VERSION and the repository HREF would cause problems. PERL VERSION and PPM VERSION (which I failed to notice at my first glance at a generated profile file) would also be set to the 5.10 values instead of the 5.14 ones. Cheers, Rob 995001 995012